FRENCH DIARIES: 25 YEARS, 25 IMAGES
Anwar Hossain�s solo photo show at AFD from tomorrow
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A photography exhibition titled French Diaries: 25 Years, 25 Images by eminent artiste Anwar Hossain will be inaugurated tomorrow at 5pm in La Galerie of Alliance Franaise de Dhaka, in the citys Dhanmondi area. The ceremony will be followed by a special slideshow at the Auditorium Nouvelle Vague at 7 pm.
Dr Pierre Claquin, photographer and public health consultant will be present as chief guest, while Dilip Das Gupta, Chevalier, Sr. General Manager, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC and eminent photographer Nasir Ali Mamun will attend the event as special guests. Bruno Plasse, Director of Alliance Franaise de Dhaka will welcome the distinguished guests and will also preside over the opening ceremony.
The pictures are Hossains reflection of a life of 25 years. For the duration of this time, he had been living in France. In that sense, the exhibition is a kind of a photographic biography, though he appears more as a subjective human being than a photo-biographer. One such photograph, titled Cartier Bressons Window, is of rain droplets on the windowpane from which the viewers will surely establish an understanding, a recollection, or a kind of a sensitivity of their own than the perceptible aesthetics. The impassioned embrace of the lips shared by a couple, as photographed by Hossain, can almost be juxtaposed with the masterpiece V-J Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt, albeit the way Hossain portrayed his is unobtrusive and quiet in nature.
The exhibition will remain open to all, till January 30.
Visiting Hours: Monday to Thursday: 3pm-9pm, Friday and Saturday: 9am-12pm and 5pm-8 pm). Closed on Sunday.
